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I need some tough and  best questionaire to write sql queries in sql server/oracle. This is for practice. Is there any site or book available for this? Thanks in advance.
I have nearly 50 pairs of tables. Each table has nearly 20 columns. I would like to find out the number of rows that are common in each pair of tables. I also would like to findout the count o...
I have a proc on SQLServer2000SP3, that excepts a large XML text, and parses the text parameter using 6 OpenXML() between a single sp_xml_preparedocument and sp_xml_removedocument. eg: ...
How to create table to store datetime in the format dd/mm/yyyy
I thought I read this some where but is it possible to routinely export data from SQL Server into a text file (ASCII) in a binary format? I have the pleasure of creating an interface to deliev...
i am getting this error  Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ':'. Server: Msg 259, Level 16, State 2, Line 4 Ad hoc updates to system catalogs are not e...
I am working on a report that pulls data from a stored procedure.  The application prompts the user for parameters and then passes them into the stored procedure so the result set can be tailo...
Currently facing a very strange problem. What ever i do to the database or the record, the sql server always timeout at a particular point. if i change the content of the particular record, th...
I am using MS SQL Server 7.0 and MS VB 6.0 (SP6). I have in SQL Table1 the following values in Field1: ABC ABc AbC abc aBc abC When I execute the following statement in my VB 6.0...
What is the iif equivalent in MS SQL. How to use it ?
error 1827: create/alter database failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 2048 MB per database. I'm trying to copy a database to my local m...
Hi I am trying to extract some data fom oracle server to the MS SQL server and in between i am converting few fileds to str,Text using Data conversion accordingly but It throws me Errors : ...
I have a column in the data source for my report that will be containing multiple items.  In the cell that displays them, I would like each to be on a new line.  I've tried (in the data source...
I have installed SQL Server 2005 on our brand new Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition server using all the default settings. I have WSUS installed and ISA 2004 which both use the SQL Serve...
I would like to write a query accessing two tables using ADO in VB6. The syntax for fully qualified tables names is [server].[databasename].[owner].[table name]. When the server name is SQL...
Hi, I need to convert Julian dates to datetime.  For example, 105031 is the 31st day of the 5th year of the 21st century, or 1/31/2005, or 98129 is the 129th day of the 98th year of the 20th c...
Hi All, We're getting the following error whenever we run our billing system: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionRead (recv()) or sometimes: [Microsoft][ODBC SQ...
Hi, We run a SQL Server 2005 server with Reporting Services enabled, both running on the same machine; Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 x64. We keep running into the "unable to load client p...
I am using SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 and I am trying to create a database from a backup file.  I have done it before in here, but this time I am getting the attached error.  I ...
Hi, Im having a big problem with yet another simple task :) Trying to get MS SQL to convert its datetime type to a UNIX timestamp How can this be done?  I know in MySQL there is the UNIX_TI...
The last line of the code snippet causes and error.  How would I go about assigning the return value of the execute statement to a variable. I need to check the value through a conditional st...
I have a string (51739) - what I need to do is to insert a '-' after the first char/int - so: 51739 becomes 5-1739
I have a SQL 2000 server and a database that I want to drop. A drop command returns "Cannot drop the database 'MyDB' becuase it is currently in use. I tracked down the process stopping t...
Hello, In our SQL Server database we have money values that are negative.  But I need to convert all negative values to positive values.  I am using the following code in Query Analyzer: ...
Ok i am trying to build a rather large dynamic stored procedure. The jist of this procedure is to create a history table and tag each line with a particular value so that if it needs to be upd...